Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 5:15 AM CDT for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 161015 RRA TORMEM TNC017-161050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 515 AM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 550 AM CDT * AT 514 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF HUNTINGDON OR 5 MILES WEST OF CLARKSBURG MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CLARKSBURG BY 520 AM CDT .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USnE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 16, 4:59 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
459 AM CDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 AM JONESBORO AR WIND DAMAGE
04/16/98 CRAIGHEAD 3 TRAILERS AND AN
OUTBUILDING WERE DESTROYED
IN JONESBORO. ONE TRAILER
WAS MOVED OFF ITS
FOUNDATION 2 MILES NE OF
JONESBORO.
0235 AM TIPTONVILLE TN .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/98 LAKE DIME SIZE HAIL
0305 AM MANILA AR TORNADO
04/16/98 MISSISSIPPI *** 2 DEAD ***
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN
MANILA. TREES DOWN. MOBILE
HOMES DAMAGED.
0325 AM BLYTHEVILLE AR TORNADO
04/16/98 MISSISSIPPI TREES DOWN. DAMAGE TO
BUILDINGS.
0405 AM RO ELLEN TN TORNADO
04/16/98 DYER SEVERAL HOMES WERE
DAMAGED. A MOBILE HOME WAS
DESTROYED WITH 2 PERSONS
REPORTED MISSING. NUMEROUS
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0420 AM MAURY CITY TN WIND DAMAGE
04/16/98 CROCKETT SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 31 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.